Raising Defensive Magic - Non Healer Routes?

[trcroyle]

Just wondering if people have found any effective ways to raise Defensive Magic other than healing in groups?

I've been fear kiting kipees (fear1, ice2, ice2, repeat), but it's slow going. My offensive magic is going up more than twice as fast.

Would I be better off with sleep? Could I optimize the defensive xp by letting sleep drain sap for a while before I nuke for the kill? Or would I be in the same boat as fear, having to recast to keep to critter off my under-armored mage?

Are there any better options?

[gralen]

For soloing magic, you've already found the best method. To improve your defensive magic more quickly, you will have to team.

[evalisa]

to raise defence at the same rate you wil lneed to do one defencive spell followed by one offencive spell and repeat

fear, ice, fear, ice

holdign the sleep will still only count as one cast

[sulbe]

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Puk

[josephm]

I use stun sometimes instead of blind, this makes duo leveling slower. If there are two mages though, and one blinds while I have a stun overlap, when the blind wears the monster can dodge but not attack. this gives the blinder a chance to recast without the tank getting hit. These twolink spells havea 'recast' that goes off every round when the monster does a save check.